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discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

If everyone is healthy at once, the line-up will be respectable or better.

I think the last 2 fragile seasons of what we've seen from A-Rod is all we're gona get for the remainder of his contract, even after his hip injury heals............(.270 avg .350 obp 15-20 hrs) he should be hitting in the 2 spot. this will also help him get better pitches to hit, being in front of Cano.

Re: discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

Originally Posted by Ram Man

The key word being hypothetical.

Yep, not likely we'll ever see it. Also assuming everyone is healthy I think you'd see a lot of full days off for Jeter, ARod, Youkilis and Tex given their injury concerns and Hafner's availability to DH against righties. Ichiro, Gardner, Wells, and Granderson would also likely rotate days off with whomever is hitting the worst taking the most time off.

Re: discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

It's amazing how A-Rod gets sht for his "diminished" abilities and Longoria gets hella praised. When, I think from 2010-2012 they played in the same number of games and I think had identical wRC+

What? A-Rod played in 358 games in that span, and his wRC+ was 125, 125, and 114. Longoria played in 421 games and his wRC+ was 139, 136, and 146. A-Rod accrued 9.6 WAR and Longoria 16.3 over that time period.

But Tex had wRC+ of 128, 125, and 116 over those three years and 9.9 WAR, almost identical to A-Rod.

Re: discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

Originally Posted by jcarey

What? A-Rod played in 358 games in that span, and his wRC+ was 125, 125, and 114. Longoria played in 421 games and his wRC+ was 139, 136, and 146. A-Rod accrued 9.6 WAR and Longoria 16.3 over that time period.

But Tex had wRC+ of 128, 125, and 116 over those three years and 9.9 WAR, almost identical to A-Rod.

Re: discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

But you are correct, it's not like A-rod is replacement level and he'd be a huge upgrade over Jason Nix ABs at 3B.

Honestly, I don't even know what to expect with Arod at this point. He looked close to shot in September and through the playoffs last year. And now he's had another hip surgery, which doctors say is extremely difficult to come back from given he's had two of them now...one on each hip.

On top of all of this, if he is scared off from doing PED's any longer, it's hard to fathom he can come back from this kind of injury and then play clean.

the optomistic view is that the surgery corrects his hip problems and he comes back and hits 15 home runs a year with a reasonable .330-ish type of obp. that would clearly be better than Jason Nix. Kind of doubt that he'll ever be at that level again.

Re: discussing the hypothetical healthy lineup

of the guys playing above their late career expected heads, i'd rank overbay as the biggest standout. so tex has a low target to beat. hafner is a beast

i do hope arod can find some new fountain of youth magic though. whatever happened to that german doctor.

edit: apparently overbay is sucking so nvm. he's not even playing above his head.

Overbay is not good....though he has managed to hit 4 home runs at least in April...on pace for something like 24 home runs ,which is about what I'd expect out of Tex for a season at this stage of his career.

Where Overbay really is not good at baseball this year is obp, which has been at .267. Even Tex can do better than that by a considerable amount.